“Republicans are putting U.S. embassies across the world at risk with their shutdown of the U.S. government.

“More broadly, they are endangering national security at a time when the United States remains under threat from al-Qaeda and affiliated groups.”

“It is reckless behavior in a time of war, and it is, above all, Speaker John Boehner and his allies who are at fault.”

“John B. Bellinger III served as a senior national security lawyer in the Bush administration from 2001 through 2009. In a post on the Lawfare blog Sunday, Mr. Bellinger warned that shutdown advocates ‘should be gravely concerned about the risks they are taking with the security of the United States’ “.